Ohmy! Thank you so much! I am happy to accept this award on behalf of the Association of Ladies, Chineses, ex-local-train-taking-Bombayites, ex-rock-loving-Hyderabadis, new-Bangaloreans-in-South-Bangalore-who-like-Ranga-Shankara, students-of-Kannada, Sandras-from-Bandra-now-in-Bangalore, and Goan-Katlick-rasam-fanciers. But you should have told me you were giving awardsandall, no, I would at least have put on my Sunday best frock and brought y'all some cake!

Yabba- I cannot able to handle comments at such speed I say- kindly excuse late replies :) But hae what a lovely. Keep em coming I say!

ahumanbean: Some-something andall you will write off I say.Cartoonaa. Haan wokay. Suddenly I got off tired of drawing. Will resume soon I pwomis.

van: Idhaane VANdaam enguradhu. Guhuhuha. Email maadi for further details. YOu are anonyminous because you have no profile or blog link I say. And what disappearingu I say. Some 10 mins I go to blow my nose after posting and 88.74 comments you will put means what I can do? Is it not?

scribbler: Yes I knew you were minority champignon and this would mean a lot to you and the world at large. Kindly note Sheshamahal is vez rest-o-rent and papleet is not allowed within its hollowed portals. Yes and you mussssst wear frock men.

anon: quiver, quake. Thatnk god I have done needful.

nileena: I think I'll take that bit of advice seriously. This is way more fun!

hello hello: cartoon is back i see. is that anoushka in the cartoon? hmmm i notice you have given her the award, when it was I who had written the piece on erstwhile bangalore. mistaken identity hmmm. anyway, i accept most graciously on behalf of anoushka! (wherever she be). will i have to share my bonda soup with her?

nigel: Aich!! Sorry Nigel! If it wasnt for the hours I spent drawling anoushka's mathoobanoo I would have substituted her picture with what i think you look like. Nevertheless I shall do so shortly once I have unsprained my finger from too much mouse dragging :P. Anoushka, sorry only half bonda for you.

ahumanbean:..yeah sexy knees only BD has drawn.hic? celebrating victory a?? :)BD: actually joblessly planning to do that printout thing that someone mentioned, to check out all the places on MG road one by one

ahumanbean: Seeeee I had a feeling about that. And hello we have established that I am chromosome-filled, remember? Err yes, Karen has hastened process by saying 95, 96, 97 itseems mad.

pri: Aiyo that is airlines hotel crow poop on karens face ma. And very saary you don't feature in this diagram. Owing to lack of space and not knowing how to draw you. Nesht time I will attempt ok va? Pomfret holding ladies is scribbler.

nileena: Took a while drawing it so solpa late happened off sorry. Ah please print out. Other suzzestions also I will give.

I yam Thomas Beatie. Boy who gaving birth, right right! But I'm still flattered to be cartooned by ouwar wery own Bengaloooru Boys.

*Vat* an *h*onour I say I say.

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BikerDudetteBoys: esss esss I yam now sure you are XY wonly. Zimbly I like taking the piss as they say in that bluddy blighty place, you ken! ;0

In plain Bengalooru English: I have joblessly notisings that no male knows how a saree is tied, and certainly has jero number clue about how to depict a saree. I thinkg it has summmthang to do with visual arts vs. wimmins' practical artsu...

Please note that I am very suspicious of the sudden crowd in the picture, hence the expression. It is beginning to look Vidyarthi Bahavan on a Saturday evening (the paaplet feels a little out of place).

OOooh, I see, VAN is a table!

As for men and drawing sarees, I will bet fifty-nine bondas that most of them will draw them as though they are drawing a version of the percentage sign.

Vhile ve good peepuls wait, breath held, for Wrong Honorable ArseMinister for Kultural Affairs and Other Affairs to arrive to do Prize Disssht-but-shenu, the eBay value of Prizings has gonings as so/ arse-so:

ahumanbean: yes yes thank you very much. Sorry not knowing how to draw (or tie) saree. Will do the needful and oblige.Yes and thank you for deluze of commentations. PS: Bonda soup cannot be consumed with chutney. For this aloo bonda is required. Jhusst I am saying mins.

Garbanzo Govindaswami (Govindamma) (humanbeanu): Hopefully bondae (note plural) will be in eatabull condison when they reach me, otherwise kindly despatch next batch. Yes, Alex IS meading me tomorrow at 7:30. (And this has to be the comment with the maximum number of brackets)

anonymous: congratulations and same to you :)

scribblers inc: Come off to Blr I say! PS, since everyone is being random I just noticed the ponytail in your pic - supercool man :)